Every time I complain about school my parents say that school teaches us important things, but I can disagree. School doesn’t teach us everything we need to know, because not every logical activity is taught in school, which we could use later on. Kids need to be taught the truth, and the useful activities used later on in future. These, we need now. And a few classes that we need can be substituted for ones we don’t. Why do we need to know n-1x-y2/3=6/v? We don’t, so they should just get rid of algebra and beyond. We need a class about how to successfully raise a family, how to pay taxes, parenthood, how to get a job. No one will do anything about this, but something needs to be done. Another thing is that I know we that we don’t need to memorize math formulas, chemicals, historic dates, or foreign history. Unless you plan on moving to France or England, the only history we need to learn is American, or maybe a little Mexican. And why do we need to know about what act passed in what year or whatever? Unless the act is still in use, there isn’t much use in learning about it. Sure, some of it is interesting to think about, but it shouldn’t be forced on kids. Another thing that I know school has gone wrong with is homework. Is 7 hours of school not enough? Sure it’s good practice for we worked on in class but couldn’t we just do it in class instead?
The most important school experience is college. The thing that separates college from normal school is that you choose to go, and the college usually corresponds to what you want to do in life. School doesn’t give you many ideas of what you want to do in life. They should put more aspects of what will happen in the future into the schooling of all children. So my thoughts on school are mixed, but what I know is that we are being taught some important, and some unimportant things, and some important things are not being taught.
Every time I complain about school my parents say that school teaches us important things, but I can disagree. School doesn’t teach us everything we need to know, because not every logical activity is taught in school, which we could use later on. Kids need to be taught the truth, and the useful activities used later on in future. These, we need now.
And a few classes that we need can be substituted for ones we don’t. Why do we need to know n-1x-y2/3=6/v? We don’t, so they should just get rid of algebra and beyond. We need a class about how to successfully raise a family, how to pay taxes, parenthood, how to get a job. No one will do anything about this, but something needs to be done.
Another thing is that I know we that we don’t need to memorize math formulas, chemicals, historic dates, or foreign history. Unless you plan on moving to France or England, the only history we need to learn is American, or maybe a little Mexican. And why do we need to know about what act passed in what year or whatever? Unless the act is still in use, there isn’t much use in learning about it. Sure, some of it is interesting to think about, but it shouldn’t be forced on kids.
Another thing that I know school has gone wrong with is homework. Is 7 hours of school not enough? Sure it’s good practice for we worked on in class but couldn’t we just do it in class instead?
The most important school experience is college. The thing that separates college from normal school is that you choose to go, and the college usually corresponds to what you want to do in life. School doesn’t give you many ideas of what you want to do in life. They should put more aspects of what will happen in the future into the schooling of all children.
So my thoughts on school are mixed, but what I know is that we are being taught some important, and some unimportant things, and some important things are not being taught.